Tom Vaughan to Helm 'The Log From the Sea of Cortez' (Exclusive)

October 16, 2013 / Saul Nathan-Kazis / Source

MEXICO CITY – Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas) is slated to direct The Log From the Sea of Cortez, a docu-fiction hybrid based on the John Steinbeck book of the same name.

Produced by New York-based Sardine Boat Pictures, the shingle of Emmy-winning producerRobert Kanter (Voices of the Children), and Mexico's Elite Studios MPC, the film chronicles a six-week sea journey that Steinbeck made with marine biologist and friendEd Rickettsin 1940.

Kanter Sails Steinbeck's Seas

April 29, 2013 / Saul Nathan-Kazis

Producer Robert Kanter has acquired the docu rights to John Steinbeck’s nonfiction travelogue “The Log From the Sea of Cortez” for an upcoming screen adaptation.

Kanter aims to re-create the six-week trip chronicled in the book, a journey that saw Steinbeck and a marine biologist travel by boat from Monterey to the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. Duo catalogued some 500 species during their time together...

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John Steinbeck's The Log from the Sea of Cortez to Grace the Big Screen

April 27, 2013 / Saul Nathan-Kazis

NEW YORK, June 21, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robert Kanter announced today that he has acquired the exclusive world-wide documentary film rights to Nobel Prize recipient and celebrated author John Steinbeck's non-fiction work, The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Through his production shingle, Sardine Boat Pictures, Kanter will recreate and film the six-week voyage Steinbeck took around the Sea of Cortez in which he and his good friend marine biologist Ed Ricketts catalogued over 500 species of fauna and discovered about 50 new species.

"I am humbled by the rare opportunity to honor and interpret Steinbeck's work for the screen," Kanter said. " It is one of the few Steinbeck books that has not been adapted as a motion picture and I hope to do it justice."....

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